Soon to be motovlogger from Durham.

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AndyB365

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Well, I guess I should begin with saying hi to everyone. I'm a very young biker and I'm due to get my first bike which will almost definitely be a TGB R50X that I've seen locally in what will probably be less than 2 and a half months (the guy hasn't advertised the moped but he's willing to sell it) and at that point I will be getting the relevant gear to star motovlogging straight away as I've had my heart set on doing it for well over a year now, inspired by the likes of Spicy110, BaronVonGrumble, you know the guys. I'm a couple of miles outside of Durham in the UK for anyone who gets the Durham in the US mixed up with the Durham I live near and I'm looking forward to being able to join you all in your motovlogging ventures in a few months time! I literally have already set up my channel already which is under the name of, yes, you guessed it, AndyB365 although I have no videos up yet (of course).

Thanks guys and I look forward to getting to know you better!
 
Welcome to the gang, hopefully once your pulling a few more bhp you can come to our path down south for one of the Moto Vlogger meet ups :)
 
Yeah, it'll be the second I get a 125 I'll be going a lot further afield, it's just avoiding motorways that would be the problem, besides that, I'll be trying to get to as many meet ups as I can just to get a general feel as to how the motovlogging world is in the UK. Absolutely can't wait.
 
I would definitely recommend spending a bit of time getting used to riding, and definitely with some training, before motovlogging. Vlogging can take away your concentration from the road which is not a good thing for someone new to riding...
 
Yeah, I mean, considering I'd only be on a 50 to begin with, and I'd have about 6 months to get used to that before moving up to a 125, I wouldn't start motovlogging immediately if I felt it was causing me any danger on the road that was unnecessary and something that is a big plus about where I live, you could ride for about a mile and only encounter a couple of cars, that, plus the fact that there are no high fences and predominantly fields on either side of the roads for miles around, people can see me fairly easily and I know everyone (nearly) around where I live, I'll have an easier time of it than someone who lives, say, the greater London area. I know that it's a completely different ball game but I've learned first hand from a 30mph crash on a pushbike the importance of watching out on the roads, it bloody hurts! :lol:
 
I try, I just hope to god that I don't do anything wrong mate! With the amount of people tearing up the streets on unregistered scrambler bikes on private lands and public roads, the police take no prisoners at all, I guess an awareness of what you're doing is as essential as having a license in the first place over here.
 
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I try, I just hope to god that I don't do anything wrong mate! With the amount of people tearing up the streets on unregistered scrambler bikes on private lands and public roads, the police take no prisoners at all, I guess an awareness of what you're doing is as essential as having a license in the first place over here.
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We all do things wrong. The trick is to try and ride in such a way that you can minimise the consequences.

Good luck with it all, anyway...
 
Thanks man, maybe one day I'll be cruising around on a triumph like yours thinking how the hell did I ever put up with a 50 :lol: Ride safe man.
 
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Thanks man, maybe one day I'll be cruising around on a triumph like yours thinking how the hell did I ever put up with a 50 :lol: Ride safe man.
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Well, my first bike was a 100cc bike that couldn't go faster than about 40. I did a fair few miles on it, though and learned a lot!
 
We all have to start somewhere, but the start is the worst part :P I reckon I'll be riding my moped quite a lot for the time I'll be on it, because as you know, the novelty of it makes you just never want to stop. I think it's a lot better to start with a 50 rather than a 200 even, purely because you can actually worry about what you're doing in 'slow motion' in comparison to other bikes, and anyway, any mistakes made now at 30mph saves the injury of a mistake at 70mph.

I remember a year ago I had my head, and heart set on getting a car when I was 17, but the fact that I was going to have to wait for a year and be charged an absolutely extortionate amount for insurance, led me to look into the world of biking, which I'd never really given any thought to before, and now I have no idea why. It was through the motovloggers that I got a slight glimpse of what biking was, brilliant, and everyone in the biking community has been ridiculously nice, I mean, it's not on the whole, but car drivers can be real spanners on the road and tend to be more reserved off the road, whereas all of the guys on motovlog.com have been brilliant. I seriously doubt that any cager in an environment like this would take the time to even acknowledge the existence of a novice to the world of internal combustion, but the world of biking is infinitely more friendly.

- Went off on a bit of a tangent there but, there you go. :D
 
We do, indeed, have to start somewhere. And it is a lifelong progression, from bike to bike and from experience to experience. I got my car licence at about 19 and had never thought about bikes at that point. Couldn't afford a car, but while I was at university, didn't really need one. In my graduate year I got to know a fresher who was a biker who got me thinking about riding. He said your either love it or hate it. Well, 26 years later, I guess it's obvious which applied to me.

As for car drivers, most of them are actually ok. There are certainly some bikers who wouldn't give you the time of day. I would imagine it's likely to be the same proportions, but, since there are vastly more drivers than riders, the bad/inconsiderate drivers are so much more conspicuous.

One thing about bikers, though, is that the smaller community does bring a certain brotherhood. People are more likely to stop and offer assistance to a fellow rider stopped on the side of the road.
 
Very true, I think I'll love it, but I won't know until I've had a bike for a few months really.

It's something about my housing estate (Probably the fact that most of them have been or are going to be arrested for various acts of stupidity) that makes everyone around here rather, unpleasant, with the exception of one or two, however, I only actually know of two bikers that live anywhere near me and one of them has just been evicted, for the first time, which probably tells why I didn't think much of bikers to begin with (I know that one doesn't represent the whole but I get out of my area very little up until now). People in cars though, in about a 5 mile radius of me, about 75% of them are completely intolerant to anyone else on the road and have nearly knocked me down on several occasions on a push bike and on one occasion on a very slow road with a 5 mph speed limit in my housing estate woman who lived there and was on her way home at the end of the day witnessed me slip gears and fall onto a barbed wire fence, she slowed down to see if I had died, and drove on.

My first impressions of car drivers weren't exactly a gleaming example of them :/
And how you mentioned that bikers are more likely to stop and help you at the side of the road because its a smaller community, I can understand that and I think it's true, but you can't help thinking when you crash that everyone who isn't rushing to get somewhere in a car is thinking 'what a muppet' and it's a mentality that I see in everyone around here.

I guess I seriously need to get out of my area ASAP so I can see the better side of driving, where everyone isn't a convicted criminal :lol:
 
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